TD Wood

All is fair in 'The Challenge'

Are there any big games in Week Five?

Add more drama to the mix!

With Week Four, It's Time For Some Teams To Win

Week Three and Catching Up

Week Two Showdowns Include a Big One In Ann Arbor

It's trivia week!

We Convinced Greg To Join!

Join the confidence points league, against-the-spread league, or both!

The Eliminations Ruled the Night

'The Challenge' Returns and So Does Our Weekly Coverage!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Nearing the end of the season now!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Season 39 of The Alabama Take’s favorite thing — next to college football — continues with   Battle For a New Champi...

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

Weekly coverage of The Challenge is here every Thursday!

We have finally arrived at The Challenge final. We got part one this week, and said goodbye to Horacio & Olivia due to injury. It's a...

Much of the episode's dialogue revolved around who should be sent into elimination, athletic favorites Fessy & Moriah or 7-time champ...

As we inch ever so closer to the final, we said goodbye to two teams this week. Kaycee & Kenny fell to Jordan & Aneesa in the fin...

The final is inching ever closer, and tensions are rising on The Challenge. Despite Chauncey quitting and earning a shaming from T.J., Fe...

A week after Team Moriah finally broke through to win a daily challenge, they failed to keep their momentum going, losing a lead over Tea...

The Underdogs win! The Underdogs win! This week Team Moriah finally broke through to win the daily challenge. They responded by s...

This week's episode featured T.J.'s favorite challenge: trivia. As per tradition, the contestants embarrass themselves on questions a sec...

Our first episode post-split gave us a physical daily where, unsurprisingly, Team Faysal won easily. However, cracks began to show when i...

This week's episode brought us a mini-final and a major shakeup in the season's format. After Faysal & Moriah dominated the daily -- ...

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

The drama certainly kicked up a notch this week, Takers. We’ve hit the point in the season where alliances become more cemented, an...

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

We are back with our much-beloved recaps of MTV's seminal reality show, The Challenge.

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

We are back with our much-beloved recaps of MTV's seminal reality show, The Challenge.

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

We are back with our much-beloved recaps of MTV's seminal reality show, The Challenge.

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

We are back with our much-beloved recaps of MTV's seminal reality show, The Challenge.

It's our weekly predictions of college and N.F.L. football against the spread!

We are back with our much-beloved recaps of MTV's seminal reality show, The Challenge.

It's our weekly predictions of college and N.F.L. football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and N.F.L. football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and N.F.L. football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college and NFL football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college football against the spread!

TD proposes an idea to both help major bowls retain some relevance and give fans some top class season-opening games.

It's our weekly predictions of college football against the spread!

It's our weekly predictions of college football against the spread!

A special all-Premier League edition of the Weekend Six Pack

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

This week's coverage of The Challenge!

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

This week's coverage of The Challenge!

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

This week's coverage of The Challenge!

* In Captain America PSA voice* So, you're trying to figure out how to react to the 2021 Iron Bowl. You have a lot of emotions sw...

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

This week we spent more time on the Tori/Devin drama, for some damn reason. We also saw what a million dollars actually looks like, and i...

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

Takin' on Sports looks at the season's first CFP rankings, and what they mean going forward.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

Six thoughts about the sports world from the week that was and the weekend ahead.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It’s the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

The weekly coverage of The Challenge continues here

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

Prepared for a shorter episode this week, we dove right back into the Josh/Fessy and Amber/Esther drama, which ended with hugs because fr...

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

It's the weekly coverage of The Challenge!

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

Our crew weighs in on another episode of The Challenge. answering all the hardest questions.

It's our weekly coverage of college football against the spread!

The fourth episode of "Spies, Lies & Allies" was high on action and drama, giving us a lot to look at in this week's recap.

The third episode of The Challenge was quite an action-packed affair. We had drama in the house and in competition. We said goodbye to ye...

Spies, Lies & Allies Recap: Bertha

The List

It's time for another round of college football realignment, and this one is sure to be the craziest yet

Ladies and gentlemen, your season 36 champions: CT and Amber B. After last season, we proclaimed Johnny Bananas the Challenge GOA...

Looks like MTV is gonna make us wait to see how the final plays out, as this week we only got the opening stage of the big event. ...

The Challenge: All Stars Episode 2

There was no shortage of drama this week, as we found out which four teams will run T.J.'s final.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Queen is gone. Although never gone from our hearts, we had to say goodbye to Big T on this week's episo...

We're inching closer and close to the final, but there's some business to attend to before then.

We have hit the time in the season where we expect our fearless leader T.J. to announce the final any moment now. That moment did not com...

Things are heating up in Iceland as we get closer and closer to the final

This week CT made a move that toppled a few dominoes and ruffled a few feathers, but isn't that what this show is all about?

MTV gave us a cliffhanger ending, but not before building a lot of drama heading into next week.

This week's episode gave us an all-time blunder from a rookie

TJ Lavin's favorite game of every season brought us a lot of laughs and a big move from a rookie

As the famous line from legendary professional wrestling announcer Jim Ross goes: “Business is about to pick up.” Aft...

10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...

This week's episode was all about the fallout from Theresa and Jay's big move last week

After finishing this week's episode, I found myself asking the same question I've asked a hundred times before over the 36 seasons of wat...

You can't have a great card with just the main event, you need to celebrate the undercard, too.

As a great poet once said (sort of): Come at the Queen, best not miss.

Another pretty forgettable episode from The Challenge, but it was saved by some late drama.

After last week's blockbuster episode, it was only natural that this week's episode came back down to Earth. Not that it was a bad episod...

The College Football Playoff was supposed to save us from the BCS, but in reality it's just the same old song and dance

The second episode of the season delivered big time, fleshing out the format and givings us a few more twists

Disney's 2020 Investor Day bludgeoned us with previews, teases and announcements galore.

The Challenge is back, baby!

The Bama WR is breaking records left and right, emerging as one of the country's best players

While tales of Lamar Jackson's demise are greatly exaggerated, the Ravens do have a problem with their passing game that needs to be addres...

There is no logical reason someone would be a sports fan. It doesn't matter that you grew up in a specific town or went to a certain scho...

The Major League Baseball playoffs start Tuesday, September 29th, and they are unlike anything we've seen before. MLB is notoriou...

Forgive me for what I'm about to tell y'all, but I haven't really gotten into football season. I know it's happening, I even did my fanta...

While watching the FA Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Manchester City a few a weeks ago, I couldn't help but notice the casual nature ...

College football is in major trouble, and the governing body hasn't done a damn thing about it.

OK, it's our last post about The Challenge until next season. That's right, it's time for the Takeys!

All hail Bananas and Jenny! We have come to the end of a strange, sometimes tame, sometimes outrageous, mostly entertaining seaso...

  The finals have arrived on The Challenge. At the end of this week's episode (which was excellent ), T.J. told the cast...

We've arrived. No, not at the final, but at the part of the Challenge season where every single thing matters. After the smoke cleared th...

In all honesty, this week's episode wasn't particularly interesting (besides, I guess, whatever is going on with Kaycee and Nany that mad...

Things get back to whatever passes for normal this week on The Challenge , as we get a full episode (we still got a card before the episo...

I suppose we should start with Dee Nguyen. She got fired this week for saying a bunch of dumb shit online regarding Black Lives Matter. I...

We have reached the point in The Challenge where the competitors’ true selves are revealed, and, oh boy, did we learn a lot this we...

We have reached the meat of this season of  The Challenge.  T.J. Lavin has been telling the contestants they need to get off thei...

In a bit of a curveball, this week's episode of  The Challenge  focused almost entirely on the Purgatory elimination challenge. L...

Perhaps that's what makes this show so compelling: the connection between relationship and competition.

The more things change, the more they stay the same in The Challenge house.

The champions are falling, my friends. Last week, Challenge legend and defending champion CT was upset in Purgatory by rookie Jay, ending h...

There is no need to bury the lede here, folks, this week's episode had a few big happenings, but none bigger than the monumental upset that...

It's been joked about many a time by many a people (I believe Bill Simmons was the originator, but I could be wrong), but MTV's The Ch...

Nobody really knew quite what to expect from the 36th edition of 'Mania, but what we got can be divided into three categories: the unexpect...

As you're aware, the 'Rona is fucking up everyone's day and our government was completely unprepared so now we all have to stay home and a ...

If the premiere episode is any indication, the third season of Westworld is going to get absolutely bonkers, and that just might be th...

Over the course of the last 10 seasons, Alabama has reigned supreme over the college football kingdom, claiming the throne as king of the s...

In 2018, Electronic Arts released five sports games under its EA Sports division. Among those are juggernauts that often rank as the highes...

SPOILER ALERT! THERE ARE SPOILERS WITHIN, PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! When Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced that they would be making ...

Before the final movie, our writers rank the rest from worst to best

Recapping the season and best guesses on the playoffs.

We aren't the champions, my friends. Well, Blaine's picks haven't been shabby. TD? Lord a mercy!

Rivals will go down, rivals will win.

A true rivalry leaves no room for such nobility. No, the best rivalries are those where the two teams can’t stand the mere mention of...

Not much amongst the awful games...but we're getting too close to the end now.

Is it really almost over?

The biggest games of the year: here's what we think are worth betting.

Let's just get this out of the way: the whole concept of the College Football Playoff Committee releasing rankings before the season ends i...

A lull in colossal games means nothing to the bettors on The Alabama Take.

Week Nine gives you a plethora of games to bet. Now which shall you chose?

Our two most unqualified writers give some more picks against the spread in Week Eight of college football!

In the throes of the season comes more conference play where the true contenders make their moves towards championships.

Welcome back to Takin’ on Sports! Sorry for the hiatus, but I was busy working out-of-state and getting hitched. Tends to take up a l...

Week Six: the bye weeks begin to take bite out of quantity, but the overall quality? It's a good-looking slate. Here we present to you two ...

It's Week Five in the blessed college football season. The season is blowing right through nap time .  As you now know, two of the mos...

Week Four! College football is full steam ahead! Each week two of the most unqualified writers at  The Alabama Take will give our agai...

Don’t look now, but professional wrestling is in danger of becoming wildly popular, again.

Week Three is here and there may be an idea of what each team is for the first half of the season. Don't forget that each week, two of the ...

A slew of young, exciting quarterbacks have taken up as franchise QBs, and it seems like the NFL is finally ready to quit clutching their p...

Week Two is in full swing! Each week, two of the most unqualified writers at  The Alabama Take will give our picks for the college foo...

Being the college football nerd I am, I love talking realignment and all the theoretical possibilities.

We are back at it for the 2019 season! Each week, two of the most unqualified writers at  The Alabama Take will give our picks for the...

We ultimately get to the SEC, the conference everyone loves to hate, as well as our picks on the College Football Playoffs for 2019. And le...

The Big Ten doesn't show a lot of promise unless Ohio State wins out or there's a surprise lurking elsewhere. The ACC is another of those t...

Finally, it's here: the first, full week of the college football season! (Please, for now, disregard Week 0 that's the new fashion.) And al...

No, we don’t need to expand the damn playoff. Period. End of discussion. There is no perfect playoff system, but the one we have is a...

A less-than-comprehensive look at the 2019/2020 English Premier League season.

It is my earnest belief that election season should be reduced significantly, by law, to somewhere around 60-120 days.

[NOTE: There are SPOILERS AHEAD. STOP READING NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN "Avengers: Endgame" -- You've been warned.]   Well, we made it. ...

For a pro wrestling fan, there is no happier weekend than WrestleMania weekend. No matter the gripes about booking or the build, fans get a...

TD Wood names his favorite WWE/NXT matches of 2018

We are not experts (though our percentages are better than some of the experts, god dammit). If you go by these picks, you're bound to be l...

We are not experts (though our percentages are better than some of the experts, god dammit). If you go by these picks, you're bound to be l...

We are not experts (though our percentages are better than some of the experts). If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money. T...

We are not experts (though our percentages are better than some of the experts). If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money. T...

We are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money. But you know what?! It's entirely possible that you'll finally...

We are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money. But you know what?! It's entirely possible that you'll finally...

What drives me to NXT is that it almost-perfectly captures every little thing that makes pro wrestling great.

We are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money, though it's entirely possible that you'll finally be able to p...

We are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money or it's possible that you'll finally be able to pay off all tho...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money or it's possible that you'll finally be able to...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be lose money or maybe you'll be able to pay off all those st...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these picks, you're bound to be upset or maybe you'll be able to pay off all those student...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these, you could lose a lot of money or you could win some major cheese! You never know! E...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these, you're bound to lose money, maybe a lot. But who knows? Each week, a few writers at...

Let's be clear: we are not experts. If you go by these, you're bound to lose a lot of money. But who knows? Each week, a few writers at The...

Finally, we here at The Alabama Take get to sink our teeth into the mighty SEC as well as the College Football Playoff contenders. Who will...

We at The Alabama Take  have more to say about the upcoming college football season. Who has the best chance at struttin' that ass int...

College Football looms in the background and haunts each day of every year for those of us at The Alabama Take . We couldn't wait to give o...

Welcome to The Alabama Take's week-long coverage leading to the kickoff of college football, some of our writers' favorite time of the year...

Therein lies the glaring problem with Infinity War: as good as it is – I happen to think it’s a pretty damn good movie – ...

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